In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe, written on Chol Hamoed Pesach, 1964, in which he addresses the question of whether an Eruv should be erected in Manhattan. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by his son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
64 Mitzvah Tanks rolled through the streets of New York City today in honor of the Rebbe’s 64 years of leadership and his 112th birthday.
Tze’irei Agudas Chabad of Israel, under the leadership of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Aronov, has just successfully wrapped up its annual ‘Pesach Fair,’ held at the ‘770’ in Kfar Chabad.
It was all smiles and excitement as 113 boys from across Israel made their way to the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Monday to celebrate a milestone—their 13th birthday and their Bar Mitzvah.
Moishy and Chaya (nee Ives) Strasburg (Crown Heights)
The Chabad Jewish Center in Phnom Penh on Friday held a ceremony in Kandal province to inaugurate Cambodia’s first Jewish cemetery there.
If it is unusual for a nice Jewish boy to become a professional martial-arts practitioner, it is even rarer for a Chabad rabbi to become one of his most avid supporters.
Zalmi and Chanie (nee Levin) Spitezki (Crown Heights)
50 seventh graders from Crown Heights’ Yeshivos competed against each other in the grand Halichos Olam Chidon, testing their knowledge of the laws of Tefilin in front of an audience of parents, teachers, community members and fellow students.
Mendy Katzman (Staten Island, NY) and Malka (bas Shimon A.) Rosenfeld (Crown Heights)
From the Safer Haminhagim: Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, one reads the passage that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. Yehi Ratzon in the Extended Article.
Hundreds of community members and guests participated this Sunday in the festive inauguration of a new Torah scroll, the first ever to be donated to the new grand Synagogue of Novosibirsk, Russia that had opened only half a year ago.
Due to the overwhelming response and demand from the community, Reb Yoel Kahn agreed to present a weekly webcast on topics that are timely and relevant. This week’s topic is titled ‘Restraining the Love‘. Update: Video fixed
Rabbi Dovber Grunblatt‘s 7th grade class at Cheder at the Ohel was honored to have Rabbi Shmuel Horowitz farher them on his own sefer, Shevach Yekor, on the laws of Tefilin and other things related to the age of Bar-Mitzvah.
Chances are you are a tiny breadcrumb trying to make a life in New York – the most expensive city in the world. You did all the right things but you failed: You snuck in to the house of a nice Jewish family, you got a free ride for a couple of months but suddenly there’s bad news, really bad news: Passover is coming.
Today at the National Action Network’s annual convention, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio praised notorious anti-Semite and race baiter Al Sharpton by saying this: ”I just want everyone to know: I am proud to stand with Rev. Sharpton, To borrow a phrase from our youth, — he’s the real thing.”
Mrs. Chana Sharfstein of Crown Heights wrote the following poem, which she titled ‘My Pure Daughter,’ as a eulogy for her dear daughter Zlata Esther (“Zlati”), OBM, who passed away this past Friday at the age of 53.
